Our first guest on the show today is Dr. David Marshall, author, educator and apologist. He tells us more about his book, Jesus is No Myth: The Fingerprints of God on the Gospels.
In the next hour, Nick Pitts, director for Cultural Engagement at the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture (a Christian think tank in Dallas) discusses philosophies and worldviews that challenge our Christian faith.
He came to the Denison Forum in 2014 after a fateful conversation with its founder, Dr. Jim Denison. Pitts, a Ph.D. candidate at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), had spent the summer studying at Oxford with other students and faculty including Denison, a visiting professor.
He contributes to the Forum in the areas of geopolitics and popular culture, as well as serving as the editor of the Daily Briefing. He continues work on his doctorate and serves as an adjunct professor at DBU, teaching a master’s level course in the philosophy of leadership.
His Ph.D. research centers upon John F. Kennedy’s engagement of the religious community in the 1960 presidential campaign. He presented a paper on the topic at Calvin College’s 2015 symposium on religion and public life.
He is an editor at large for The Liberty Project, an online magazine, and his op-eds have been published by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Religion News Service and Townhall.com.
He received a bachelor’s degree in 2007 from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and a master’s degree in 2009 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
He served as the Director of College Ministry at First Baptist Church Arlington (Texas) for five years.
Ernie Johnson usually comments on basketball highlights, but he became the highlight last week with his response to the 2016 presidential election. Johnson serves as the host of the NBA on TNT show. Sharing the NBA on TNT desk with the likes of Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal, Johnson often is overshadowed both physically and comically by these former NBA players and current jokesters. However, on Thursday the jokes went silent.
Speaking on Thursday night, Johnson candidly admitted he was discouraged by the negative tone and profiles of the presidential candidates. He said he felt like he’d been “dealt a bad hand” in this election. He couldn’t bring himself to vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. He cited “trust issues” with Hillary Clinton and “inflammatory rhetoric” from Donald Trump. Instead, he disclosed that he wrote in Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who was one of sixteen Republicans who ran against Trump during the primaries and lost.
According to the report, which cites league sources, the three teams — the Milwaukee Bucks, Memphis Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks — plan to stay elsewhere when traveling to New York City and Chicago to play the Knicks, Nets and Bulls.